Family night at Chick-Fil-A

Chick-Fil-A is one of our favorite fast food restaurants.  Grant loves the chicken nuggets and the playground, of course.  Charlotte will one day love the chicken nuggets too, I’m sure!  And me, yes I LOVE their diet cokes…there is just something about them! 

Every Tuesday night they have a Family Night with some type of theme and this time it was dine with Cookie Monster.  We knew that we had to be there and Grant would love it!  So we packed up the car for an ice cream snack with Cookie Monster.

It did not disappoint…Grant loved giving the cow “high fives” and giving Cookie Monster hugs.

Happy 83rd Birthday Granny!

We got the opportunity to celebrate Matt’s Granny’s 83rd birthday this past week.  We are so lucky to have her so close so the kids will grow up knowing her and she will have the enjoyment of watching them grow up as well.

Happy Birthday to you, Granny!

New Braunfels Wildflowers

We took a trip over Spring Break to see Grant and Charlotte’s Grammy and Papaw in New Braunfels.  When we drove into town we were excited to see that the wildflowers were out since we did not see any around the Houston area yet.  Nothing is cuter than two precious babies in the wildflowers.

  

Love those kiddos! :)

Yummy fruits!

Here was Charlotte after her first bites of applesauce…she loved it!  The first time we tried it she ate the whole jar.  After we stuck with the applesauce for a few days we moved onto banana, pears and peaches.  She loved them all except for the peaches…I think they were too sour for her.  She would sour up her face at them each time.  Next we need to move onto veggies!

Easter Pictures

We took the kiddos to Mercer Arboretum to take yearly Easter pictures.  Some of the flowers were already out and Grant loved running around through the pathways and looking into the ponds with the fishes!

You can’t win them all…either one kid is smiling and the other is not.  Still a precious picture of two precious kiddos.

Notice the adorable shoes on Charlotte!  They are so precious! :)

Can you see what that spells??

G-R-A-N-T!  Yes sir, Grant can write his name!  I am such a proud mommy of such a cute (and smart) little boy!

Big Brother Moments

To be truthful we did now know what to expect from Grant when we brought Charlotte home.  He has always been very good natured and laid back about  almost everything, so we hoped that adding a little Charlotte to the mix wouldn’t stir up any hard feelings. 

Grant has been great!  It has been 5.5 months and he has never had an ounce of resentment or jealously towards his little sister.  He loves her and is completely enamored by her.  Here are a few of my favorite big brother moments so far…

• For the first few months he called her “Ta-toe”…because Charlotte was too hard to say.  That has become a nickname for her now.  I hope that when she is 16 we all aren’t she calling her Ta-toe!
• He is very concerned when she is crying and will come and get me if he thinks that I don’t hear her.  Until I come to see what she is crying about he will sit by her and says “no fussies, no fussies.”
• We have a few books that have a touch and feel aspect to them and he loves to take her hand and ,while we are reading, touch the fluffy bunny or soft petals.
• We have started to feed her solid food and he is very concerned when she is “messy” after eating.
• His new thing is getting into her crib with her.  He will sit in her crib and turn on the mobile for her and say “Charlotte likes that!”
• He is always so sweet to her and will go and talk to her when she is laying on the floor or sitting in her chair.  He says “Hi Charlotte” and she will give him the biggest smile ever!

It has been such a joy watching these two interact with each other! :)